Hospitality’s Next Era: In And Beyond Flussbad, Slowness Reimagines the Possibilities

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Boutique hotels and global membership clubs have had an outsized influence on the 21st century hospitality landscape. Twenty-five years in, amid our hyperconnected context of cultural sameness and climate awareness, many are questioning what our predominant modes of going and staying truly offer. Is there a way forward that nurtures rather than depletes? How can we reconnect with places, people, and ideas in ways that feel grounded and real? Charting the course for answers is Slowness, the experiential hospitality collective co-founded by Claus Sendlinger, whose creation of Design Hotels in the early ‘90s helped catalyzed the boutique hotel movement. In the next era of his team’s vision, Slowness is redefining what hospitality brings to the table. Ignant experienced its flagship project in Berlin, the Flussbad Campus on the eastern reaches of the Spree River, where the category-eluding Reethaus stands as a stoic centerpiece. An exploration of how Slowness’s life-centered philosophy honors the connections between all living things, and strengthens the bonds between them.

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